For Effective Climate Policy, the First Step is the Hardest
After more than three decades of trying, Austria moves to tax carbon.
Social Cost of Carbon (SCC)
Technically, the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide (SC-CO₂), and the social cost of other greenhouse gases such as methane (SC-CH₄, or SCM) or nitrous oxide (SC-N₂O, or SCN).
Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas
by A. Patrick Behrer, R. Jisung Park, Gernot Wagner, Colleen M. Golja, and David W. Keith
Peking University Financial Review
Cover Story | 封面
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Rome, Italy
ORF: Klimaerwärmung wird „verdammt teuer“
Gespräch mit Lukas Wieselberg, science.ORF.at
Costly tipping points
New research shows significant economic costs of climate risks.
Economics Needs a Climate Revolution
With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with today's biggest problems. Change within the discipline is underway, but it cannot come fast enough.
The Climate Tipping Point We Want
The green transition comes with costs; but they are well worth it, and they pale in comparison to the costs of inaction. The ever-falling costs of renewables have not eliminated the politics of climate change. But they certainly have made our choices much easier.
Recalculate the social cost of carbon
The science is ripe to update estimates of CO2 emissions costs. Calls to scrap the calculation are misguided.
Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
The number that could shift climate action into overdrive
By Kelly Macnamara & Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon
by Gernot Wagner, David Anthoff, Maureen Cropper, Simon Dietz, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Ben Groom, J. Paul Kelleher, Frances C. Moore, and James H. Stock
A tale of two carbon prices
The U.S. is updating a number with the potential to push federal regulations into overdrive.
Climate Economics
Spring 2021
Carbon Pricing and Innovation in a World of Political Constraints
NYU Wagner workshop organized by Jesse D. Jenkins, Leah Stokes, and Gernot Wagner
Social Cost of Carbon Workshop
NYU Wagner
The Exxon Tax
The Numbers Behind Exxon’s Support for a Carbon Tax
The No DICE Carbon Price
If $40/t CO₂ were the "right" price, tax carbon and move on. $40/t isn't the right price. The Exxon-backed tax isn't it.